Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
November 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 25
- Adam (8)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (1)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (0)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (7)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (1)
- Victoria (1)
Total Comments: 6
- Ratatouille (0)
- Secrets From Another Place (0)
- Black Narcissus (0)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2)
- This Is England (0)
- Hail The Conquering Hero (0)
- American Gangster (0)
- Frozen (0)
- Paris Je T’Aime (0)
- Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (0)
- Shake Hands With The Devil (0)
- Fido (0)
- American Gangster (3)
- The Zero Effect (0)
- Trapped in the Closet (0)
- The Big Lebowski (0)
- Begotten (0)
- Saw IV (0)
- Lions for Lambs (0)
- Death of a President (0)
- Stranded (0)
- Evil Dead II (0)
- The Evil Dead (0)
- The Goonies (0)
- Cemetery of Terror (1)
Full Archive
American Gangster / USA / 2007
The gangster epic is looking a little tired nowadays. Ridley Scott’s newest is, like The Departed before it, an overlong, self- serious attempt to relive the glory days of The Godfather and Goodfellas (or even Carlito’s Way), undeniably entertaining but possessing relatively little of it’s predecessors’ wit, style or insight. And why choose to focus on the seen-it-all-before rise to fame part of the Frank Lucas story, when the final stages- Lucas turns state’s evidence and puts all his old rivals behind bars- seems so much more interesting? Perhaps the film’s producers were afraid of a backlash by the sponsors of American ghettoland’s recent and popular ‘don’t tell’ campaign.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: 35mm print
27 Nov 2007 11:25 AM | Submit Comment
